Most formal meetings require secretariat support to ensure they are conducted according to certain rules and procedure. The Senate is no different. Every sitting day senior officers of the Department ...

Amid a mounting arms race, including missile proliferation, in a fraught security and geopolitical environment in the Asia-Pacific region, the release by Japan’s Cabinet on 16 December 2022 of its 3 ...

Practically speaking, the case has exposed the Commonwealth to significant liability for actions impacting native title in a territory from the early 1900s. More recent relevant actions were already ...

In 2024, 2 states and 2 territories signed the Better and Fairer Schools Agreement, 2025–2034 (the first agreement), committing to a replacement education agreement for the expired 2018 National ...

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Consumer understanding of insurance policies at sign-on and renewal 5.5Improving consumer understanding of the policy they are taking out has been a decades-long challenge for the insurance industry, ...

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The word ‘parliament’ originally meant a talk and was derived from the French parler (to speak or parley) and the Latin parliamentum. In the latter form it was applied to the after-dinner ...

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10 December 2013 © Commonwealth of Australia 2013 ISBN 978-1-74229-931-0 View the report as a single document (PDF 3.4MB) Membership of the Committee Abbreviations Foreword Introduction - Right ...

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3.1 Term of reference (b) requires the committee to: ...review the evidence on the short- and long-term effects of viewing or buying sexualising and objectifying images and products and their ...